Anchorage is a doctor with a legendary experience, and his name is well-known even in the entire galaxy.
He holds multiple medical degrees and has made significant contributions to interdisciplinary research. Besides his superb medical skills, this doctor also has a deep understanding of physics and mathematics due to his personal interests.
It is rumored that he is currently studying occultism and attempting to apply chaos algorithms to the mapping of subspace topological shapes.
Logically speaking, such high-level talents should be in the Alliance Central Medical College or somewhere else, rather than in a remote place like Blackstone Fortress.
But it is said that because the doctor had some quirks, no institution was willing to accept him.
However, the version Bai Yi knew was that Anchorage actively rejected the invitations from these institutions.
He had come to Upper Blackstone Fortress of his own accord.
Anchorage is a Popanga, a race with a white exoskeleton like an insect.
This tough exoskeleton gave them the ability to stand out from the wild planet they were born on, but it also made the growth history of this race full of hardships.
The Popanga are an oviparous species, and a single egg laid by a female Popanga can weigh up to three kilograms.
This species spends most of its infancy in an eggshell, but does not have an exoskeleton when it hatches.
At this stage, the Popanga people are very fragile, their skin is very tender, and they cannot adapt to the harsh climate of the planet's surface. Therefore, they stay indoors almost all year round, and only go outdoors to breathe fresh air in the evening when the wind is calm.
Their height will increase rapidly over the next seven years, from 30 to 40 centimeters as a toddler to over two meters.
It's not until they reach eight years of age, when their bodies have matured, that the exoskeleton begins to grow on their skin.
This process will continue for two years, after which the bones in their bodies will begin to dissolve under the action of biological enzymes, and the precipitated nutrients will be applied to the exoskeleton.
This exoskeleton is composed of skin keratin and minerals, with a pale texture like lime. However, its texture is surprisingly light and tough, and its strength is no less than that of ordinary steel.
Including the added size of the exoskeleton, each adult individual is over 3 meters tall.
Each of the four arms on either side of their bodies has six slender and flexible fingers, each of which has three joints.
These people's arm spans can exceed 4 meters, and when standing upright, their lower arms can reach all the way down to their knees.
In addition, their heads are triangular, and from infancy to adulthood, they will transform from an acute triangle to an equilateral triangle.
This shape obviously did not allow enough space for the brain tissue to develop. So the Popanga people evolved three different brains, assigning different brain functions originally handled by a single brain to different brain tissues.
Located in their triangular head is called the sensory brain.
As the name suggests, the sensory brain is responsible for processing the senses of various parts of the limbs.
Visual, auditory, olfactory, and most tactile signals are processed in this area.
The chest is home to the thinking brain, responsible for thinking and issuing commands to the body. It is the most important part of consciousness in the Popanga's self.
Compared to humans, the Popanga have a hardened bone like an insect shell in the lower part of their chest, which protects their brain.
The living brain is the smallest of all brains, only the size of two fingers.
The vital brain is mainly responsible for directing the body's internal circulation, including controlling the secretion of various hormones, maintaining the body's endocrine balance, directing the heartbeat and respiratory system, regulating body temperature and blood sugar, affecting the organism's emotions and eating, etc.
To sum up, the Popangas are like alien creatures from a science fiction horror movie. When they suddenly appear in groups on the streets of other ordinary planets in the galaxy, they will definitely cause great panic in the local area.
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This wasn't the first time Bai Yi and Anchorage had met. As early as when he first took over the Blackstone Fortress, Anchorage came to visit him.
But this visit was purposeful, as he put it.
"See what the most human-like AI looks like."
From then on, this alien-like friend who looked like he had albinism left a deep impression on Bai Yi.
Especially when Bai Yi learned that Anchorage was more than four thousand years old, he felt sincere admiration.
You have to know that when the other party was born, the Defense Era had not yet begun, and the situation in the Galaxy was still at its peak in the Galactic Era.
It was not until later that Bai Yi learned that the Popanga people had randomly produced an almost perfect genome through natural selection.
They can live for over 10,000 years, and will not age at all after adulthood. They are also immune to most diseases, including cancer.
They remain energetic from the beginning of adulthood and continue this state until the last moment of their lives.
If humans are the favorites of God, then the Popangas are simply the gods themselves.
On the huge card table of the Milky Way, if humans had not started early and turned the table over, I am afraid that in a few thousand years, the entire Milky Way would have belonged to Anchorage and his people.
If the galaxy hasn't been completely destroyed by the crystal storm by then.
The meeting with Anchorage was arranged at a nightclub at the bottom of the pyramid, 172.
This was the location Anchorage had chosen for no particular reason other than he worked there as a part-time bartender.
Yes, a doctor works part-time as a bartender in a nightclub.
It sounds weird, but it happened.
Alcohol, hormones, flashing spotlights.
A chaotic crowd and deafening music.
"What would you like to drink? Martian ice or Orion's aurora?"
Anchorage recognized Bai Yi from the drunken mask leaning against the bar at a glance.
He took an empty glass and placed it on the table between them.
"Don't you have anything non-alcoholic here?"
Bai Yi had a headache.
He was a teetotaler in his previous life, and even after traveling through time and space into his current body, he was completely unable to adapt to this kind of occasion.
He looked up at Anchorage, his oversized dark red bartender uniform looking a little funny on him.
Four white gloves were worn on the broad palms with six slender fingers. Under the dim and ambiguous light, it was impossible to tell for a moment whether it was the color of the gloves or the skin color of the wearer.
The owner of the hand made an expression, and Bai Yi guessed that he was smiling.
Popanga's face is also covered with an exoskeleton, so there are only a few movable muscles at the corners of his mouth and eyes.
"I have an idea."
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